Oreo Turkeys (Thanksgiving Snack)

From: mom2nat&ry

On Nov 24, 2009

My 13 year old son and I made some of these tonight. I couldn't find candy corn so we used peanut halves. They were still cute just not as colorful! We're going to make some more for Thanksgiving as the ones we made tonight all got eaten!!!

From: TN-Ruthie

On Nov 22, 2009

We have snack day in my kinder's class the day before TG vaca, and when I saw this, my search was over! I LOVED the look & ease for 20+ kids. I chose the golden double stuf Oreos & feel it looks cleaner than the choc-no dark crumbs on the 'stuf'. Good advice on getting x-tra cookies, b/c they either break or are already broken. BTW-Save the lids to smash w/ butter for a dessert crust-I hate to throw away a perfectly good cookie! I used malted milk balls for the head & made the eyes w/ a dot of store-bought white cream ch. frosting & stuck a red jimmie or sprinkle (ya know the colored things for ice cream). A tooth-pick helped place it in the center of the frosting dot. I dotted the licorice w/ frosting to stick it under the malted milk ball head. I love the realistic look of the mini-Reeces cup, but think the round heads are cuter for the kiddies-I tried both. Super-duper easy for a non-baker like me! My kinder (and hubby) loved them & I can't WAIT til Tuesday to present it to the class. Great, fabulous idea. More like crafting than cooking & I really enjoyed creating these lil gobblers! I submitted a pic of my first so you could see the golden cookies, too. :D

From: * Pamela *

On Sep 27, 2006

I teach a kids "cooking" class on Wednesday nights and I am always on the lookout for fun and easy recipes and this one caught my eye last year but our Thanksgiving is in October and I did not have the chance to use this recipe last year. I need recipes that are sort of simple because my youngest group is grade one and two but it still have to be fun for my oldest group too, who are grades five and six. This was fun for the kids (grades 5&6) last week. I made a batch of Sugar Cookie Icing and tinted some black and some white and put in ziplocs with the end cut off so they could add eyes and "glue" on licorice laces on the side of the head. In total over three weeks my three classes will have made about 200 oreo turkeys!! Thanks Cheryl

From: Shabby Sign Shoppe

On Nov 21, 2006

Fun recipe. Did these at my son's school (3rd grade) and they were a huge hit. We are going to make these again on Thanksgiving with the kids. Have extras since some of the cookies inevetably will break. I also made white icing for eyes and cut Twizzlers in small pieces for the gobbler. Very cute treat!